How to Use genial in a Sentence

genial

adjective
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  • The tone is genial, the humor just a little offbeat and not at all off-putting.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • And to the genial notion of this meeting, Major Brown, A Sourdough is a guy who drinks ...
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The teacher, a genial guy who’d come up in the area, indulged my interest in the science of waves.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Each face-off starts off genial, so Christian tries to stir up some drama about why so-and-so picked such-and-such for war.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 28 July 2023
  • The adult table has empty chairs, one once belonging to the genial head of the family.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Over the phone, the brothers radiate a genial good humor.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2023
  • The surgeon — a more genial and forthcoming one this time — can fit me in; the oncologist will see me.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The genial race caller is the host for our weekly previews and other musings.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • And the spirit is as genial and relaxed as that river-tubing Hill Country town.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Favoring fleece vests, Youngkin sought to cut the image of a genial suburban dad.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Compared with old-school brawlers like Sandage, today’s researchers are a genial and cautious bunch.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2019
  • A year and a half later, Quinn, now 79, remains sharp-witted, genial, mellow.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • What is this disconnect between the genial vanilla of the mind and its heady, almost unruly scent and flavor?
    — Ligaya Mishan Melody Melamed, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The portrait that emerges is more complicated than the common views of Franklin as either a smug bourgeois or a genial old man.
    — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Who: Country star who specializes in high-energy live shows and a genial beach vibe.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 24 Dec. 2022
  • His manner is that of a genial dinner party host who has a doozy tale to unfold — one his guests might be more eager to savor than the meal itself.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Snoop Dogg, the genial rap elder, was the headliner; a fog of weed smoke filled the air, and at least half the crowd was wearing some kind of marijuana iconography.
    — Tom Breihan, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Iudice, a genial British Italian, took a seat on a Forest bench, surrounded by images of trees.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2022
  • In fact, Friday seemed a day without minuses, offering genial warmth and the light of a full moon on a foggy morning.
    — Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The Mercer Bears had a better turnout than expected, with one rowdy but genial group of guys making noise under and around their own tent.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The church choir, the writers’ workshop, her own kids, and her husband, Pat (played by Patrick Fugit as a genial, distracted dork), just aren’t raising her blood pressure enough.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • While Heine played the genial front-man, Yates oversaw operations.
    — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The tempo of the kitchen increases when the house is full, though a certain genial informality prevails in the great dining room.
    — David Denby, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • His birthday parties were sprawling, genial affairs, with kids, dogs, food, movies.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • But one prominent friend stayed through all the ceremonies over a couple of days, genial and relaxed like a favorite uncle.
    — Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Koontz is warm, genial and prone to astonishing candor.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • That wasn’t easy for LaCour, perhaps the most genial person in school, if not all of rural Farmersville, according to Nappo.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • When the curtain rises we’re greeted by a genial genie, played by Marcus Martin.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The half bath, the powder room’s more genial, practical cousin, took a similar path from rarity to routine.
    — Kelsey Keith, ELLE Decor, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Could Wagner’s Alberich, once the subject of a genial debate between Carfizzi and his manager, come in the future?
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024

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